Students at Frazier International Magnet School wait outside before the start of school on September 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson/Getty Images One of the biggest political battleground ...

Policymakers and pundits raise alarms whenever international test results are announced. In December, upon release of new scores from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, or ...

We’ve all seen the headlines: American students are far from stellar performers on international tests. Whether it’s the OECD’s oft-cited gold-standard PISA test on math and reading, the TIMSS test on ...

Eighth-graders in the United States have made steady progress on an international test measuring math skills over the past two decades, but girls lag behind boys in 12th-grade advanced math and ...

This weekend was the first in which the ACT was computer based at all international testing centers. The ACT in the United States is a mix of computer based, for state and district tests, and paper ...

Here is a third post in a debate on The Answer Sheet about international test scores and whether they tell us anything important about the U.S. public education system. The conversation began with a ...

An increasing number of colleges have made submission of SAT or ACT scores optional. But just because a college is test optional doesn’t mean it’s optional for international students. International ...